Exercise 2
EXERCISE 2
Translate into Spanish:
- I regret having left the newspapers at the workshop, but I shall send for them.
- He regretted the turn for the worse in the market which compelled him to request us to ask our friend for a guarantee.
- English manufacturers are not asleep.
- They have been asleep for many years but now they are wide awake (se han despertado bien) to the necessity of adopting up-to-date methods (modernos, á la altura de los tiempos) and adapting themselves to the requirements of the consumers.
- Manufacturers are selling every day but usually (generalmente) in small lots.
- Shirting makers want more money and find difficulty in getting it.
- Dhooties (dhooties) and jacconets are now so well sold that producers (productores) will only book (aceptan órdenes) at good prices.
- Heavy textiles (telas) are too stiff for general attention (demasiado firmes para atraer á los compradores) but makers are not hungry for (ansiosos de obtener) orders.
- Indian business was barely (apenas) of normal dimensions (proporciones).
- Will you set the books on that shelf (estante) and set (colocar) those papers in order?
- The term you have set me (fijado) is too short.
- They ought to set a (dar) good example.
- He set about it (puso mano á la obra) at once.
- Setting aside the (prescindiendo del) fact that he is behind with his payments, he does us great harm by running down (desacreditando) our goods.
- Winter has set in (principiado) and heavy cloths are in great request.
- I have set my mind on (me he decidido á) this venture.
- A movement has been set on foot (iniciado) to bring about the revision of the bye-laws.